Healthy food?

flierdeke
Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:22:59 +0000

As Ben pointed out, there’s nothing stopping you from eating the specifically vegan/vegetarian entrees. There is, however, a general belief among the student body that it’s not allowed or somehow a bad-citizen thing to do unless you’re actually vegetarian, on the grounds that the real vegetarians can’t eat the other food. (That is, people who usually eat meat think they’re not allowed to go for the vegan option when the meat is particularly unappetizing one night. No one would think twice about someone like you typically choosing the vegan option.)

This makes absolutely no sense unless you are taking the very last bit from a starving vegan. It is good to have a stable number of people eating each dish, yes, but this isn’t food that’s been prayed over–it simply doesn’t include certain ingredients.

Next year I’m supposedly going to be the vegetarian food rep, and am hoping to point out that this is a dumb rule (or pseudorule) and that everyone should be welcome to eat the vegan food. Yum.